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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…

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I Want to be the One in Control

It’s all about time. SEP, like most organizations, lives and dies by time sheets. Our time sheets are two weeks long. Each entry has a start time, a project code, a description, and a duration. Easy enough, but what does that have to do with EmberJS? To Quote Miss Jackson, “I Want to be the […]

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Testing the application: object interactions and AJAX calls

The final step in the series of posts about adding tests for the Backbone application is to add tests for functions that interact with other objects as well as dealing with those pesky AJAX calls. This addresses the “spies and mocks will be addressed later” can that has been kicked down the rode so far […]

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Testing the application: workflows

In addition to the model and view tests, tests for the workflow of the Backbone application need to be added. As before, see the full repository for more context around the tests. The test shell As with the previous tests, the specification for the workflow needs to pull in a reference to the workflow module. […]

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Testing the application: models and views

As part of the series of posts, the next three posts are dedicated towards writing tests for the Backbone application created in the previous post. All of the tests (in more detail than outlined below) are available. Adding the page to run the tests As with the tests for the API layer, the application tests […]

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Building a Backbone Application with a Workflow

Now that the API exists, it is time to create the Backbone application. The full code for the application is available. More so than in the previous steps in the series, there is a lot more content in the application than is shown below. Looking through the full source provides a much more complete context […]

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What is Node.js, and other lightweight musings on new web technologies

JavaScript web technologies have sprouted like weeds over the last few years. While I was busy working on desktop and mobile applications, it seemed like a massive JavaScript wave engulfed the software world. The last time I did anything in the web space was with ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, and a little Ruby on Rails. […]

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Hosting the Node API in nginx with a reverse proxy

The Backbone application (coming in the next post in the series) will interact with the REST API using AJAX calls. Adding a reverse proxy allows those calls to work without browsers stopping the requests due to cross-site scripting (XSS) concerns and without setting up cross-origin resource sharing (CORS). Using nginx Nginx is used to setup […]

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Testing the API with Jasmine

The API created in the previous step did not have any tests. It is now time to start to rectify that. As before, in addition to the example code below, the full code for the tests is available. Adding Jasmine specifications The tests are written in Jasmine, a behavior-driven development testing framework. The tests are written as […]

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Building an API with Node, Express, and Mongoose

The first step in creating the example application is to create an API for the application to interact with. Node, Express, and Mongoose are used to create a REST API. In addition to the example code below, the full code for the API is available. Environment setup To support the API, Node and MongoDB need […]

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